“SNL” Just Cast Their New Donald Trump Actor, And His Impression Is — Quite Frankly — Bone-Chilling (BuzzFeed) All Trump! All the time! (Guess Alec Baldwin wasn’t available, huh.)

NYT: Body Shaming Dressed Up as a Fitness Goal Is Still Body Shaming

Kenosha Jurors Are Being Photographed – For Doxing

Prosecutors Move For Mistrial As Jury Has Been Tainted By Clear Video Evidence Of Kyle Rittenhouse Defending Himself  Babylon Bee.

At the Rittenhouse trial “Grosskreutz, who admitted he ran at Rittenhouse who was on the ground, agreed that when he had his hands in the air, Rittenhouse took no action to defend himself. Only when Grosskreutz lowered his hands and pointed the gun at Rittenhouse did the defendant shoot.”

Biden admin considering shutting down another pipeline, drawing criticism and dire warnings as winter nears

‘Saturday Night Live’ addressed ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ trend in cut sketch

Biden’s Infrastructure Plan May Be Hugely Inflationary  ‘May be’?

Biden Adviser Calls Doocy’s Question about Payments to Illegals ‘Disrespectful’

Biden yanks our supply chain

Corrupt Networks Censor Biden Plummeting to New LOW Poll: 38%

Biden Targets Another US Pipeline For Shutdown After ‘Begging’ Saudis For More Oil

Joe Biden’s Poll Numbers Tank. Kamala’s Are Even Worse.

Watch: Biden Yells, Points At Reporter Who Calls Him Out For Lying About Payments To Illegals

Joe Biden Wants to Help Women by Freeing Rapists

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There’s no way to confirm that a crop was grown organically. Randy Constant exploited our trust in the labels—and made a fortune.

Study Warns ‘Luxury’ Pollution By Global Mega-Rich Is The Real Problem

Rittenhouse On Trial

ABC Panel Pummels GOP Over Victory in Virginia, Predict No Repeats

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In 2005, the psychologist Agnieszka Golec de Zavala was researching extremist groups, trying to understand what leads people to commit acts of terrorist violence. She began to notice something that looked a lot like what the 20th-century scholars Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm had referred to as “group narcissism”: Golec de Zavala defined it to me as “a belief that the exaggerated greatness of one’s group is not sufficiently recognized by others,” in which that thirst for recognition is never satiated. At first, she thought it was a fringe phenomenon, but important nonetheless. She developed the Collective Narcissism Scale to measure the severity of group-narcissistic beliefs, including statements such as “My group deserves special treatment” and “I insist upon my group getting the respect that is due to it” with which respondents rate their agreement.

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog — until you bark.

Thousands Of Active-Duty Air Force Members Miss Deadline For COVID Shots

San Francisco To Force 5-Year-Olds To Show Vaccine Passport To Enter Restaurants

Pfizer Shares Surge After Release Of ‘Miracle’ COVID Pill That Is 89% Effective At Preventing Hospitalization

Florida Governor DeSantis Announces Lawsuit Against Biden’s “Unconstitutional” Employer Vaccine Mandate

More Than Half Of Unvaccinated Americans Say Nothing Will Change Their Mind

CDC Director Refuses To Tell Senators How Many CDC Employees Are Fully-Vaxx’d  She probably doesn’t know.

NYC Firetruck Availability Down To 55%, Manpower Shortages Due To Vaccine Mandate: NY Firefighters

Young Professional Athlete’s Reaction to Vaccine

Florida Court Reinstates Governor’s Ban On Masking Mandates In Schools

Maryland county teaches there’s a “double pandemic” of COVID and racism

We obtained never-before-seen data on how Chesa Boudin is prosecuting cases. Here’s what it shows

Google Employees Oppose Company’s Cooperation with Israel

China’ll hold supporters of Taiwan independence criminally responsible for life

White House Is Bypassing Usual Fiscal Review Process to Push Spending Bill Through. This Is Irresponsible.

Authorities Arrest Analyst Who Contributed to Steele Dossier

No, Universal Pre-K, Child Care Subsidies Won’t Pay for Themselves

Michigan Secretary Of State Sued For Failing To Remove Dead From Voter Rolls

How Government Worker Unions Manipulate Municipal Elections

Report: Hillary Clinton Tried To Prove Trump Was Colluding With Russians By Colluding With Russians  How … Clintonian.

Taibbi: Rachel Maddow’s Shocking New Low

GOP Congresswoman Lauren Boebert Mocks AOC With “Let’s Go Brandon” Dress

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The Gender Plan asserts that America has failed to deliver on its promise of equality to all. Using women as a pretext to address standard progressive priorities, the plan deplores the plight of marginalized minorities, who require a “shift in social and cultural norms,” not to mention universal health care, more immigration, more benefits for illegal immigrants, cashless bail, higher retirement benefits, a solution to the climate crisis, and institutionalizing the race-based practices of diversity, equity and inclusion throughout government.

The plan willfully confuses the core American principle of equality of opportunity with the goal of “equity, which is fundamentally discriminatory. Even in this encyclical about women, the Administration couldn’t advance a plan that was about women as women. Instead, the plan focuses only on women who are “of color, LGBTQI+ people, people with disabilities, and all those whose lives are affected by persistent poverty and inequality.” The plan promises that gender equity and equality are at the forefront of America’s foreign policy.

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Meantime…this is modern day train robbery. Modern day LA not far from Union Station…a few days ago. Unfortunately it is happening every day. As soon as the train stops, thieves start opening containers. It is quite well organized. This is the main line

Racism In the Public Schools

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Proves Bad at War

‘View’ Hosts Lose It On Guest For Disagreeing CRT ‘Isn’t Taught’ in K-12

I Was Told I Have Career Advantages ‘as a Black Woman.’ Here’s How I Replied

Braves Fans Celebrate World Series Win With Racist Cheer That Won’t Go Away The Huffington Post huffs and posts.

CNN, MSNBC Ignore Victory Speech of Historic Black Republican in Virginia  She’s a Republican and so Not Really Black.

Climate change will alter where many crops are grown

Climate change is not an ‘existential threat’

Colorado’s Climate Change Roadmap

Bill Gates shops for climate-saving farm — aboard super-polluter yacht

The sea is rising faster now than any time in the last 3,000 years, experts say, slowly swallowing the Texas Gulf Coast  I’ll start worrying when Galveston is evacuated.

‘Super polluters’: the top 10 publishers denying the climate crisis on Facebook (The Guardian)

Beware: Gaia may destroy humans before we destroy the Earth (The Guardian)

Incredibly Bad Idea Gains Steam At COP26: Tariffs To Combat Climate Change

Democrats Becoming More Honest About How They See Themselves. And How They See You.

FBI Sat On Bombshell Footage From Kyle Rittenhouse Shooting

Stalking Sinema, Menacing Manchin, and Talking Trillions is Political Theater

Jennifer Granholm Violated Hatch Act in Maine Elections, Watchdog Says

With Youngkin Win in VA, CNN Declares America ‘Incredibly Divided’

Safeway In Castro Cuts Hours Due To ‘Off The Charts’ Shoplifting; ‘It’s Sad, Upsetting And Frustrating’

Why It’s So Hard To Tax the Rich (Politico) Money talks, and most rich people (these days) are Democrats.

Washington Post: Democracy Dies When the Republican Candidate Gets More Votes Than the Democratic Candidate

“It’s A Blood Bath” – NJ Governor’s Race Still Too Close To Call As Voters Punish Democrats For Leftward Shift

UN Expert Calls for Countries to Embrace Radical Gender Theory

GLAAD, USA Today: America Still Not Gay Enough

Dems Remain Delusional

Florida Homeowner Fined For Hanging Trump And “Let’s Go Brandon” Banners On His Own Home

You Mean There Were More?! Behold, the Worst Overnight MSNBC Hissy Fits

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The U.S. Army has been preparing for a “near peer” (conventional enemy) war for over a decade now and one problem has gotten worse. For a near peer conflict the army needs rail lines from bases to ports as well as an adequate number of rail cars to carry heavy equipment. Currently about half the army rail lines from bases to the commercial mainlines are unusable because of delayed repairs. A five-year program to remedy this is behind schedule. There is also a shortage of army rail transportation troops, made worse by a 2015 reduction in railroad troops because the army believed they could rely on commercial railroad personnel in the U.S. and foreign nations to do the job. That proved to be too optimistic. When the availability of commercial railroad specialists was recently checked it was found that the needed personnel for wartime operations were not available in the numbers needed.

The last time there was a major movement of units to ports was in 2003, for the invasion of Iraq. During that period the army found that 67 percent of army vehicles and heavy equipment had to move by rail. The army could not repeat the 2003 performance now and a near-peer war would involve the initial movement of at least twice as many units as in 2003.

Backdoor Roth, a tax strategy favored by the rich, survives in Democrats’ latest plan (CNBC) My, what a surprise.

Virginia’s Mainstream Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Declares War on His Own Voting Base: Nice White Public School Teachers

End of the avocado: why chefs are ditching the unsustainable fruit (The Guardian) Fruit getting cancelled for being Politically Incorrect.

Tax the rich? Maybe not. Democrats’ spending plan could be a tax cut for the rich, budget watchdog finds (CNN) Democrats can’t even get stealing right.

Lincoln Project’s sleaze is now owned by the Democrats

Journos: Anyone Opposing Today’s Democrats Is Like a Democrat (George Wallace)

Hacks at the Wash Post Endorsed Every Virginia Democratic Candidate for Governor Since 1977

Amazon To Open New Office In Jersey City After Being Chased Out Of NYC By AOC

FDNY Union Head: De Blasio’s Ensured People Who “Care For Criminals Have More Rights Than People Who Care For The Average New Yorker”

Trump escalates his January 6 cover-up as political comeback steps up a gear (CNN)

Jan. 6 Organizers Are Raking It In With Trump and GOP Groups (Daily Beast)

Reporter reveals what Lindsey Graham said during January 6 riot (CNN)

‘Pure Evil’: Republican Adam Kinzinger Blasts Tucker Carlson for ‘Abusing’ Viewers’ Trust (Newsweek)

Top Republican Lawyer Says Trump ‘Setting a Fire’ With ‘Destructive’ Election Fraud Claims (Newsweek) All Trump! All the time!

‘Step up or step out’: Lawmaker calls out attorney general (CNN) Apparently the AG isn’t fascist enough.

Twitter Lets Anti-Youngkin Hoax Run Amuck  My, what a surprise.

Statues, Statues Everywhere!

Republican gerrymandering promises even more polarized Congress (The Hill) ‘Polarized’ is politician-speak for ‘not caving to the Democrat agenda’.

Trump’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers Ate the Republican Party (Daily Beast) Whatever happened to our Democrat-lite party?

Animal rights activists hold ‘Squid Game’ themed protest outside In-N-Out in San Francisco (ABC) Virtue-signaling: It’s not just for Twitter any more.

Washington Post report rebuts the January 6 alt-reality that Tucker Carlson promotes (CNN) And CNN promotes the Washington Post because one hand washes the other.

Anti-Masker Who Harassed NYC School Kids Fired in Epic Self-Own (Daily Beast) How is getting fired a ‘self-own’?

MSNBC Mocks Loudoun School Rape Case as ‘Manufactured Outrage,’ ‘Made-Up’ Controversy

‘I Just Think This Let’s Go Brandon Thing Is Really Disrespectful,’ Says Man Wearing F— TRUMP T-Shirt  Babylon Bee.

Sacramento Has Become Nation’s Least Affordable Housing Market  I guess voting for Democrats really advances the cause of affordable housing.

Two strategies to salvage democracy and halt the rise of authoritarianism (The Hill) I don’t think two hardcore Democrats have anything to teach us about salvaging democracy (remember Elian Gonzalez?).

Portland Travel Group Says City Is Too Scary For Tourists And Not Just On Halloween

Germany debates how to form gender-neutral words out of its gendered language

Worst Analogy Ever: On MSNBC, Abortion Advocate Says SCOTUS Case Brings Ax Murders to Mind!  MSNBC performs the useful function of gathering all of the insane ‘I want to change the world’ scribblers in one place and underscores their lunacy.

Why Are Native Americans Such a Disappointment to the Woke?

Sleepy Cow Town Sacramento Is Now A ‘Dangerous Hellhole’

Virginia Student Says Virtual School Is Terrible, Critical Race Theory Is Real

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Background, ICYMI: An AP reporterette claims she heard a Southwest Airlines pilot say “Let’s Go Brandon” into his cockpit mic. (So far no audio or video has emerged to prove her statement.) She also claims to have done what any other suburban, privileged white woman would do and demanded to speak to the plane’s manager. (Banging on the cockpit door to try and get a statement from the pilot.)

Legit or not, this alleged incident has brought out the full fury and rage of the Democrat left, with one former Deep State Operative/current CNN employee comparing “Let’s Go Brandon” to supporting a terrorist group. Former Clinton administration official Joe Lockhart says it indicates “a broader problem” which one presumes is the fact that a lot of unionized pilots aren’t Democrats. Another Democrat/CNN contributor declares “Let’s Go Brandon” is MAGA code for “Sieg Heil.” (In fairness, they say that about pretty much everything the right does.)

‘Cheating’ Maspeth High School teachers ousted from classrooms amid ‘testing improprieties’ Apparently the job of public school teachers isn’t really to teach anybody but to guarantee good jobs for public school teachers.

S.F.’s Castro Safeway closing early, blaming ‘out of control’ shoplifting

How to Steal 40 Years of Elections

Taxpayers Take School Board to Court for Trying to Silence Parents’ Criticism

PETA Calls On MLB To Rename ‘Bats’ As Name Is Offensive To Nocturnal Flying Animals  Babylon Bee.

North Carolina middle school art assignment infuriates parents over sexual imagery

Former Ohio Democratic Party chair: Current generation of politicians have ‘never been in a democracy’ (The Hill)

Why is white supremacy growing in the United States? (Al-Jazeera)

PETA Wants Major League Baseball To Stop Saying “Bullpen” Because It’s “Insensitive To Cows”

Seriously, NY Times? ‘The Right’s Big Lie About a Sexual Assault in Virginia’

Tibet’s Long Fight for Freedom

Trade Group Says Texas Law Will Make Social Media ‘Unacceptable’  It’s already unacceptable.

U. of Florida Blocks Professors From Testifying on Election Reform Lawsuit

Cuomo Agrees With Lincoln Project Stunt, Says it Raised ‘Legitimate’ Question

Hillary Clinton Dresses Up As President For Halloween  (Babylon Bee) Can’t get any scarier than that.

Facebook froze as anti-vaccine comments swarmed users (Associated Press) Swarmed!

Fight Over Mask Mandate Caught On Video At Woodland Hills Restaurant

Supreme Court Rejects Religious Exemptions for Vaccine Mandates in 6-3 Maine Ruling

Dan Bongino Ends Radio Program In Vaccine Mandate Battle With Employer

Covid Vaccines Don’t Work Well Enough to be Mandated

“Stop Medical Apartheid!” – Police Passive As Huge Crowd Protests Australia’s Draconian Pandemic Powers Bill

Michael Shellenberger.

I am pleased to officially announce that on October 12, 2021, HarperCollins will publish my new book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. At nearly 400 pages, and with 1,100 end notes, the book is equal to Apocalypse Never. It is based on over 200 interviews, including with leading experts, advocates, and elected officials, over the last two years, original data analysis, and a review of the best-available research on crime, drugs, and homelessness. I wrote it because I love San Francisco and am upset and ashamed of what has happened to it and to other progressive cities in the name of progress.

Nets Spike New Loudoun Assaults, Evidence CRT Taught in Virginia

Parents Demand California School Board President Step Down After ‘F**k You’ Hot Mic Incident

How Deeply Have the Chinese Communists Penetrated Our Institutions?

AP Acts Puzzled That a Democrat Could Lose

Florida school board member takes elementary school students on field trip to gay bar: ‘SO honored’

Manchin Will Agree to Halloween Only if Candy Is Completely Removed (The New Yorker) Andy Borowitz thinks he’s the Babylon Bee, I guess.

Democrat Cries to ‘Defund Police’ Fade in Mayoral Races as Crime Surges Funny how that works.

Susan Collins Marks 8,000th Consecutive Vote in Senate  She gets the ‘RINO clinging to power’ award.

The Self-Isolation of the American Left

CNN and MSNBC Spend 17 Nights HIDING Horrific Loudoun School Sex Assault Case

Tucker Rips ‘Lying Coward’ Liz Cheney After She Joins Democrat Meltdown Over His J6 Exposé

NY Times Dismisses Parental Concerns on Education: ‘Angry and Threatening….Frantic Republican Alarms’

School Superintendent Complained That Sheriff Rejected Request to Monitor Parents as ‘Extraordinary’

Facebook Enacts ‘Irreversible’ Ban of NC Mayor without Explanation

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Yesterday morning the White House posted a summary of its so-called Framework of a Spendapalooza bill to be jammed through Congress by Democrats in a reconciliation bill. The White House posted the summary just before President Biden went up to Capitol Hill to meet with the House Democratic caucus.

Biden followed up with one of those 20-minute White House speeches in which he stares vacantly into the teleprompter while he struggles to read the text served up to him. The White House has posted the text of his remarks here. I have posted the video below.

The falsity of the remarks lies somewhere between painful and outrageous. Listening to Biden recite the text is tortuous. If ordered by a court as punishment for a crime, it might violate the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

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Don’t wear a mask; you must wear a mask. Buy a pulse oximeter. Stock up on Tylenol, vitamin D, Pepcid. Whisper so you don’t spit. Stand six feet from others—no, 10. Wear gloves. Wear two masks! Open the windows. Close the schools. The dizzying madness of COVID, and the reliance on gurulike experts, has been eerily familiar.

I have a pulse oximeter….

Joel Kotkin.

To some in the Biden Administration, the supply chain crisis can be dismissed as a loss of East Asian-made consumer trinkets that, as Vox tells us, we could all be better off without—or as White House spokesperson Jen Psaki suggested, amounts to little more than “the tragedy of the delayed treadmill.” Yet, in reality, a broken supply chain is hardly a rich man’s problem—global bankers are having their best year ever—but mostly impacts ordinary folks suffering from rising prices for everything from soybeans to natural gas. The crisis is now expected to last for at least a year.

The chaos on the ground level may not much hurt the elites of Manhattan or Palo Alto, but inflation, which is now expected to continue apace for at least the next year, has wiped out wage gains in the U.S., the UK, and Germany. Low-income groups are the most threatened, struggling to pay energy costs, surging rents, and higher food prices. All this is also eroding President Biden’s already weak poll numbers.

Obama Dismisses High School Rape as a ‘Fake Outrage’

Dem Hypocrites at CNN Still In Full Panic Over GOP Redistricting

NY Times: No Constitutionality, No Problem! Illegal Tax Merely ‘Stakes Out New Territory’

The Vox Formula: Telling Privileged People What They Already Believe

S.F. community advocate posted on social media about a rape allegation. Then she was fired

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot drowned out by boos at union fundraiser BRAAAAAAAINS!

Conservatives sound like anti-racists — when the cause is gun rights (Washington Post) Not that the WaPo would know anything about either subject.

Democracy’s sudden peril was an inside-job (The Hill)

San Francisco gas prices could reach all-time high That’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

Liberal Dems Angry as Moderates Get Family Leave Tossed From Spending Bill  My, what a surprise.

New York Times Journalist Is Running for Oregon Governor — as a Democrat, Of Course  Considering the recent record of Democrat governors, how hard could it be?

Dem Candidates in Virginia Ban Cameras From Public Campaign Events  Democracy dies in darkness, but that’s where Democrats live.

Pelosi Pushes Electric Vehicle Subsidies As Husband’s Tesla Stock Soars

CNN Claims American Foreign Policy Needs Biden’s ‘Crucial’ Big Spending Bill

Lame WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ DRAGGED Into ‘4 Pinocchios’ for Lying Terry McAuliffe

VIDEO: Omar Wanted To Dismantle Minneapolis Police. She Now Blames Them for a Crime Surge.

Eloi and Morlocks in Portlandia

‘We’re Not Doing Anything Bad To Your Kids But You Cannot Come In And Check,’ Says Public School Teacher  Babylon Bee.

Angry Parents, Voters Driving Recalls Around Nation Over Mask Mandates, Lockdowns

‘There Is No Rational Debate’: Loudoun County School Board Chair Trashes Parents

Wisconsin Sheriff Seeks Investigation of Nursing Home Voting

Legal Experts See Strong Self-Defense Claim for Rittenhouse

Dissatisfied Northern Virginia Parents Moving Kids to Private Schools

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The cure is worse than the disease, say critics of an emergency plan of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach backed by the Biden administration. If you think port congestion is bad now, just wait for what comes next.

On Wednesday, two days after the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced a surprise emergency fee for containers lingering too long at terminals, the National Shippers Advisory Council (NSAC) held its inaugural meeting. NSAC, created to advise the Federal Maritime Commission, is composed of 12 U.S. importers and 12 exporters. Members include heavy hitters like Amazon, Walmart, Target, Office Depot and Ikea.

Council members had a lot to say about the California port fees — none of it good.

Once again, government action, rather than fixing the problem, has merely made it worse.

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Digital real estate marketplace Zillow has been hemorrhaging cash in the home-buying arms race in certain markets, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, after the company tweaked its algorithm to jack up the bids it offered on real estate.

One of the more ominous movements in both real estate and tech during the current phase of the covid-19 pandemic has corporate house-buying sprees in response to resurgent demand, using predictive algorithms that try to divine the future of the housing market. The aim is generally to flip the homes for a profit, or in some cases convert them to timeshares or rental units, with unknown long-term effects for the housing market. Throughout the summer and fall, Zillow was urgently pursuing these potential buys via an “iBuying” program called Zillow Offers, which advertise homeowners’ offers in as little as a few days.

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As we focus on our own problems in the United States, the Russian war against Ukraine continues. There is also a cold war between a Russian proxy, Belarus, against Poland and Lithuania that involves immigration.

Belarus invites Middle East immigrants to come to Belarus. Belarus then deposits these immigrants on the Polish and Lithuanian borders and tries to force them to cross into Poland and Lithuania. The goal is to destabilize two NATO nations.

Ukraine is not a NATO nation but the United States is selling Ukraine Javelin anti-tank missiles to defend against Russian tanks in the Donbass region of Ukraine. They are also purchasing drones from Turkey, and Turkey plans to allow Ukraine to produce the Bayraktar T2B in Ukraine.

Mainstream morning news ignores massive migrant caravan heading to US border

Joint public events between Harris, Biden decline amid falling poll numbers

Biden’s Climate Agenda Dies In The Senate

Caravan of Hundreds of Migrants Press North Across Mexico “The U.S. government has put pressure on Mexico to contain migrants before reaching the U.S. border.”  Guess that didn’t work. (Allowing foreigners to cross your territory in order to invade a neighboring country is, I suspect, an act of war.)

Not a Trick: No White House Treats for Halloween This Year  Apparently the Bidens will be in Europe on Halloween and so the porch light will be off.

US Issues 1st Passport Listing Gender as ‘X’  If i were a foreign country, I would refuse to accept such a passport.

Biden Under Fire for Decision to Grant Syrian Dictator’s Cousin a US Visa

US Ends Immigration Arrests at Schools, ‘Protected’ Areas

Biden’s Approval Rating Plummets in Blue States

Janet Yellen Pops Out Of Child’s Cake To Take His Birthday Money  Babylon Bee.

There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, But Biden Says Free Community College?

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Hammer tech.

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Evolution. It’s not just for breakfast any more.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

I am proud of the friends we at Power Line have made over the years, but I am also proud that we have made enemies of some truly hateful individuals and organizations. For me, Exhibit A is Education Minnesota, the National Education Association’s affiliate in my state.

Education Minnesota is by far the number one political force in Minnesota. The teachers’ union dominates our state legislature and gets pretty much whatever it wants. Its influence is malign: for decades, it has opposed every effort to reform and improve Minnesota’s public schools, almost always successfully.

UPDATE: Defund the Education “Deep State”

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The Times reports that “Under the proposal, people with $1 billion in assets or $100 million in income for three consecutive years would be brought into a new tax system. Initially, they would have to assess the current value of their tradable assets — like cash, stocks and bonds — and their value when they were purchased, then pay a one-time tax on them.”

The Washington Post reports that “The plan would also set up a system for taxing assets that are not easily tradable, such as real estate,” and also that “Billionaires would also be able to take deductions for any annual loss in value of those assets.”

The constitutional challenges that such a plan would face are considerable.

California unemployment claims are one-third of nation’s total while Texas cranks up its job creation

Dealers openly peddle pot in NYC park teeming with families, tourists As long as they have masks! That’s what’s important.

Facebook’s Political Maelstrom Exposed

Pelosi Confirms Wealth Tax On Billionaires’ Unrealized Gains Is On The Way  Which is unconstitutional.

‘Fed-Protected’ Man Identified As Mystery Instigator Of J6 Capitol Breach

CNN Hails Massive Democrat Spending Bill: Our ‘New Deal!’  Maybe it will crash the economy as the first New Deal did.

Judge: Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos Legally ‘People’

California Drove Truckers Out of Business. Now Store Shelves Are Empty

Sunny Hostin Scoffs, Inflation Is a ‘Republican’ Issue

How Can 84% Of Chicago Public Schools Students Graduate When Only 26% Of 11th-Graders Are Proficient In Reading, Math?

2 San Francisco Prosecutors Resign to Join District Attorney Recall Effort

ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC Refuse to Cover New Migrant Caravan Careening Toward U.S.

Woke School District Accused of Mishandling Vicious Bullying, Beating of 15-Year-Old

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The left claims that their most urgent battle is to save democracy, but when it comes to any questioning of the LGBT lobby, they are the ones who sound like authoritarians. The overtones are unmistakable in the “news” coverage promoting “dozens” of employees walking out of Netflix in Los Angeles on Oct. 20 in protest. The target? A popular Dave Chappelle comedy special, “The Closer.”

Tens of thousands of anti-abortion advocates can assemble and be ignored, but assemble two dozen transgender lobbyists and NBC and PBS will treat it as momentous.

Why is the idea of ‘gender’ provoking backlash the world over? (The Guardian) Perhaps becaus the Left’s idea of ‘gender’ is insane?

German police stop far-right vigilantes patrolling Polish border (Reuters) Well, when the government won’t enforce the law, citizens have no other option.

‘They are treating us like a game’: Migrants caught in border standoff struggle to survive (CNN)

S.F.’s Riordan high school students walk out during antiabortion presentation

How Do Bad Cops Stay in Power? Just Look at Miami. (Politico)

Right-Wing Pro-Trump Event Aiming for 10,000 Attendees Sees Less Than 1,000 on First Day (Newsweek)

Illinois Supreme Court Rules Gun, Ammo Tax Unconstitutional

Texas Nabs Win over Big Tech in Lawsuit Over ‘Free Speech’ Law

Soros-backed Virginia prosecutor loses again

Pelosi: Wealth Tax Likely Included on Final Spending Bill  Except that a ‘wealth tax’ is unconstitutional; the only reason we have an income tax is because it was specifically authorized by the 16th Amendment.

61% Of Americans Paid No Federal Income Taxes In 2020 – Who’s Greedy?

NBA Again Refuses To Stand Up To China After Celtics Broadcasts Banned

CNN Calls for Press to Ditch Objectivity, Portray GOP as Threat to the Country  What objectivity?

Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity

I voted for Trump in 2020 — he proved to be the ultimate RINO in 2021 (The Hill) Yeah, The Hill knows what it means to be a Real Republican.

Trump Advisers Enlisted Ex-Army Psy-Ops Specialist in Bid to Overturn Election (Daily Beast)

Jim Acosta confronts Marjorie Taylor Greene on Capitol Hill (CNN)

Trump Derangement Porn

MSNBC Decries Republicans as ‘Killers’ and Fascists

Pranksters have already defaced Trump’s new social network (Washington Post)

Bannon Caught Fleeing U.S. Disguised as Man Who Recently Took Shower (The New Yorker) I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.

Democrats move to finalize new ‘billionaire’ tax proposal, targeting 700 wealthiest Americans as key source of revenue for spending plan (Washington Post)  Successful? Well, we’ll punish you for that. (Betcha it neither increases what ‘billionaires’ pay nor provides the money they say it will.)

Lincoln Project files ethics complaint against Abbott (The Hill) Of course they do.

Feeding The Liberal Flock: Glenn Greenwald Exposes The Real Reasons For The Congressional 1/6 Committee

Cancel Culture Takes A Big “L”  Matt Taibbi looks at the Dave Chapelle situation.

Taki is delightfully dyspeptic this day.

“The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money,” screams a Bagel Times headline, as bogus a message as that caricature of a newspaper’s other captions of an antiwhite, anti-cop, anti-male, and anti-Conservative platform. (“Bid the binary goodbye,” is another pearl.) Not that anyone takes the Bagel Times seriously any longer since it decided that whites are very bad people, and that it will cover only Blacks (capitals for them, lowercase for us). Still, I found it amusing that London is responsible for the shame of the Pandora Papers, when most of the miscreants involved are third-world dictators and Eastern oligarchs.

Never mind. A newspaper that consistently shades the facts to suit its agenda—even book reviews are assigned to well-known haters of the subject reviewed—is not to be taken seriously, and it’s not, but as I’m traveling and feeling good, I will for the second week running defend the very rich. For starters, it’s only the very rich who are clobbered when investing in Silicon Valley start-ups that go belly-up. Those below a certain net worth are not allowed by law to invest. Mark one for the common man and woman. When a start-up implodes, as most of them do, the very rich take it with their chin up, while the media laugh like hyenas. But the working stiffs are safe by having been excluded from the start.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out? The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels? Gas hitting $5 a gallon with winter heating fuels soaring? Free-for-all looting in the major cities without consequences? Joe Biden’s policies and Biden himself diving in the polls?

Never in recent American history has any administration birthed such disasters in its first nine months.

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An on-set shooting death has reignited concern about the use of prop guns like the weapon actor Alec Baldwin discharged in the killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while filming a movie in New Mexico.

I think that instead it ought to re-ignite concern about Alec Baldwin. The gun didn’t fire itself.

UPDATE: Alec Baldwin’s Accident  John Hinderaker at Power Line.

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A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing them to dig for water, strip bark for food and joust with other elephants. But during episodes of intense ivory poaching, those big incisors become a liability.

Now researchers have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks.

During the conflict from 1977 to 1992, fighters on both sides slaughtered elephants for ivory to finance war efforts. In the region that’s now Gorongosa National Park, around 90% of the elephants were killed.

The survivors were likely to share a key characteristic: half the females were naturally tuskless — they simply never developed tusks — while before the war, less than a fifth lacked tusks.

Well, that’s how evolution works.

Head of California’s largest union arrested on theft, fraud charges  Look for … the Union label….

Tech Salaries Are on the Rise, Just Not in New York or San Francisco

Brian Laundrie might be dead, but women like me are still hunting for closure And somebody, by God, had better provide it for me.

New gerrymander weapon Gerrymandering is a Bad Thing … when Republicans do it.

A politicized Supreme Court? That was the point (The Hill) No. Just … no. A ‘politicized’ court is never the point.

Poland triggers an existential crisis for Europe (Washington Post) No, just for the E.U., which is not quite the same thing.

ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/MSNBC Spend Zero Seconds on Loudoun,VA School Sex Assaults

Facebook kept its own oversight board in the dark on program for VIP users

Andrea Mitchell Hails David Hogg for ‘Really Effective Protests’ for Gun Control  Really? What ‘gun control’ measure has “Camera” Hogg gotten passed?

China Blocks All Boston Celtics Games After Enes Kanter Demands “Dictator” Xi “Free Tibet”

Religious Persecution? Ex-Washington State University Football Coach To File Lawsuit

DC Cops Say Department Pressured Them To Have Abortions

YouTube Bans ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Video for ‘Medical Misinformation’

Nevada Democrat Violates State Mask Mandate at Star-Studded Gala Honoring Chinese Billionaire

ACLU Sues Texas School District Over Long Hair Policy

Pa. Poll Worker Gets 1st 2020 Voter Fraud Bounty Reward From Texas Lt. Gov.

University of Virginia Students Vandalize Thomas Jefferson Posters

Reducing People to Their Pronouns

ABC’s Roberts Whines to Jill Biden About Loss of ‘Free’ College in Dem Spending Binge

Marine Vet Sues Walmart After Pharmacist Refused To Fill His Ivermectin Prescription

The FDA’s War Against The Truth On Ivermectin

NYC mayor ‘troubled’ by video showing unmasked officers forcibly removing masked subway commuter

High school teacher of the year faces termination over vaccine mandate  I’d terminate him for looking like a derelict. But that’s me.

Florida Chief Fired for Not Forcing Firefighter Vaccinations

Florida Gov. DeSantis to Call Special Legislative Session to Ban Vaccine Mandates

NIH Letter Shows Fauci Lied to Congress About Gain of Function Research Funding  My, what a surprise.

Finally: San Francisco To Require Proof Of Vaccination To Poop On The Sidewalk  Babylon Bee.

CDC Says 5 Year Olds Will Still Need to Wear Masks After Vaccine Is Approved for Kids

CDC Advisory Committee Quietly Confirms Moderna Jab Significantly More Dangerous Than Pfizer

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“I’m tired of this sh*t, I’m tired of them ruining these characters,” Eltaeb said, in light of DC’s announcement that Superman would no longer be abiding by the motto of “truth, justice, and the American way,” according to Breitbart.

“I’m finishing out my contract with DC. I’m tired of this sh*t, I’m tired of them ruining these characters; they don’t have a right to do this,” Eltaeb added.

Eltaeb continued on, citing that his grandpa had almost died in World War II, and changing Superman’s motto from the “American way” to a “better tomorrow” is disgraceful to those who fought and died.

“My Grandpa almost died in World War II; we don’t have a right to destroy sh*t that people died for to give us. It’s a bunch of [expletive] nonsense.”

Ohio college student ‘angry’ and ‘scared’ after ‘cisgender men’ installed radiator in dorms: ‘Safe space’  The student in question is biologically male, which raises a number of questions that the ‘news’ coverage is carefully not covering.

‘Terrifying’ for the U.S.: YouTube Censors Steven Crowder for So-Called Trans ‘Hate Speech’

Couric Blames America’s ‘Sexism’ for Her Failure as CBS Anchor

TikTok Threatens To Censor “Let’s Go Brandon” Song For “Harassment And Bullying”

Nets Skip Parents Suing AG for ‘Terrorism’ Smear, NBC Rails Against Anti-CRT Law in TX

Nation’s Leading Parks Group Introduces ‘Woke’ Language Guide

NYT: Yeah, Sailer Was Right About Del Rio as a Preview of the Coming Camp of the Saints; But the Camp of the Saints Will be a Good Thing.

Pope Demands Silicon Valley “In The Name Of God” Censor “Hate Speech”, “Conspiracy Theories”

McAuliffe Abruptly Ends Interview, Says Reporter Should Have Asked Better Questions

Americans Still Trapped In Afghanistan Told By Washington Post To Lower Expectations

ADL Under Fire for Teaming Up With Anti-Israel Activist Who Defended Terror Groups

NYC Fentanyl Deaths Up 55% During Pandemic

Ivy League Firebombers Pled Guilty, Face 10 Years Under Terror Law

Twitter VP of Trust & Safety Del Harvey Resigns, Leaves Legacy of Biased Censorship

UN Health Special Rapporteur Calls for Abortion  Nothing says ‘health’ like killing babies.

CNN Lectures Manchin on Climate, Urges He Back Massive Spending & Regulations

ZMan jerks back the curtain.

If a man had fallen asleep in 1980 and woke up in this age, he would be amazed at many things. We can easily think of the technological stuff like social media, Zoom calls and mobile devices. Then you have the cynical stull like the failure get back to the moon, much less Mars. One less obvious change is the explosion of entertainment and the public obsession with being entertained. Forty years ago, people did not expect to be constantly entertained throughout their day.

One aspect of the saturation of entertainment is how public affairs transformed into something like Vaudeville. People dream up new acts and new characters to play on-line and on television. If the act works, we get a flood of imitators. Once that runs its course, someone cooks up a new way to separate from the rest of the performers and they have their run on the big stage. Politics in this age is pure theater, centered on various acts making claims to certain audiences.

Bari Weiss tells Brian Stelter how ‘the world has gone mad,’ lists ‘people who work at’ CNN as a cause

Popular singer, TikTok star is robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco: ‘Peeing my pants’ Time to leave.

Nets Blackout Parents Protesting DOJ for ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Smear

Higher Urban Densities Associated with the Worst Housing Affordability

Oberlin Student Feels ‘Angry, Scared, Confused’ About ‘Cisgender’ Workmen

Local Gov’t Employees Took Hundreds of Hours of Paid Time Off To Elect Warnock, Docs Show

Texas Civil Rights Groups Sue Over Redrawn House Maps  As the night follows the day.

CNN Democrat Budget Freakout: ‘Implosion of Mother Earth, Last Act for Democracy’

Axios Blames American Consumers, Not Bad Policy for Labor Shortages

District Attorneys Refusing to Prosecute Some GOP-Led Laws

Top Berkeley Scientist Resigns, Says School Excludes Scientists Based on Political Views

Video Transcript: The Mountain of Data Showing How Authoritarian Democrats Have Become  Glenn Greenwald.

Maryland Dems Keep Redistricting Process Hidden From Public

7 Ways Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Tax-and-Spend Bill Would Take Over Your Health Care

Democrats Are Trying to Sneak Gender Dogma Into a Bill on Family Violence